{"id":3508,"date":"2019-03-14T04:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2019-03-14T04:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:57:54","slug":"gurps-banestorm-embers-of-defiance-book-iii-session-2-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"GURPS: Banestorm: Embers of Defiance, Book III, Session 2.19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none; border-radius: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bs3banner.jpg?w=600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3KvbtmB6_Y\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"PCs\">\n<legend>Dramatis Person\u00e6<\/legend>\n<ul>\n<li>GM: CommJunkee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Arn_Rainaldsson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arn Rainaldsson<\/a> (Andricus)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Brumrumli_Barrelfoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brumrumli Barrelfoot<\/a> (Ronnke)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Finn_Sardock\">Finn Sardock<\/a> (Rigil Kent)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Lan-Fan_Nakasato\">Lan-Fan Nakasato<\/a> (Loki)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Thorondil\">Thorondil<\/a> (Gigermann)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Zistral\">Zistral<\/a> (Herodian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><strong>Wherein the Warband Fails, a City is Destroyed, and Two of Their Number Are Lost&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standing before the gates of the temple, the warband advance with Finn in the lead. Standing over a bound Sheikh Al\u2019Dafar ibn Al\u2019Hadir, the yuan-ti mistress finishes her ritual and opens her eyes to look at Finn \u2026 before plunging the knife into the sheikh\u2019s chest. There is a brilliant, blinding flash.<\/li>\n<li>Blinking the spots out of their vision, the warband realize to their shock that Arn and Finn have transported into crystalline prisons. Thorn takes lead immediately and jumps over the remains of the shattered drawbridge, intent on rescuing his friend, Finn; Zyanra and Lan-Fan follow him. A moment later, yuan-ti warriors boil out of concealment and charge Brum and Zistral.<\/li>\n<li>Arn and Finn find themselves in an area overflowing with mana. Impossibly, Lashiel is <i>also<\/i> here. The yuan-ti mistress is there as well, but more importantly is a female djinn who orders her servant to deal with Finn while she handles the other two. Magical duels ensue.<\/li>\n<li>As Thorn and company scramble into the temple, they note that the two appear to be suspended within their crystal prisons; Arn especially seems to be withering away. The three split up to get Arn, Finn and the yuan-ti female out of the crystals, but must deal with flying serpents that swarm toward them. Behind them, Brum and Zistral ferociously hold the line; the dwarf is grievously injured during the fight but clings to consciousness and fights on. To Lan-Fan, Thorn and Zyanra, the two seem to be moving in slow motion which implies wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey shenanigans.<\/li>\n<li>Inside their Dreamscape, Arn and Finn fight on, though the latter is able to piece together that this is an illusion, with the djinn leeching energy from them. He shouts this out, which enrages the djinn who hurls a spell that causes Finn to collapse in utter agony. The djinn closes in on Arn but Lash grabs him and takes him over the side of the platform hanging over the abyss; she apologizes to him. She did not know what was happening until too late; the only way for him to survive is to join her in the Ring. He agrees and his soul becomes one with her.<\/li>\n<li>Outside, Thorn has extracted Finn from his crystalline prison &#8211; Master Sardock emerges screaming before he passes out &#8211; but when Lan-Fan pulls Arn free, he is dead. Zyanra pulls the yuan-ti female free and the sinister creature snaps awake, bellowing that they\u2019ve \u2018killed us all.\u2019 At this, Zyanra retorts with \u201cNo. Only you.\u201d before plunging her spear into the yuan-ti\u2019s back. Around them, the temple begins tremble and shake. Carrying his unconscious friend, Thorn springs down from Finn\u2019s prison, allowing his new magical wings to slow his descent.<\/li>\n<li>Using a flying carpet, Rashid joins Brum and Zistral just as the others emerge from the temple. Finn slowly regains consciousness and is about to re-enter the temple to find Arn\u2019s body \u2026 but abruptly freezes when he realizes what he\u2019s looking at. Turning to the others, he shouts out that this is a localized Banestorm. And they need to run!<\/li>\n<li>A desperate attempt to get clear ensues, with most of the warband easily outdistancing the maelstrom. Only Brum and Finn lag behind, being the slowest of the company, and to the dwarf\u2019s horror, Lord Finn is swallowed by the Banestorm.<\/li>\n<li>The city itself is destroyed as the warband and the surviving Fa\u2019iel narrowly escape, leaving behind only shattered debris and broken buildings, and in shock, the warband stare at the destruction. Brum limps out of the ash and smoke with the grim news to his comrades and the desperate Lady Ammerah: their lord has been lost.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Player Notes:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CommJunkee finalized his insanely long run as GM for this adventure arc and holy cow, we ran really, really long. As I told CJ later, I think we should have ended the session before the final chase and then picked up the next week with it because, due to the lateness of the hour, I think too many of us were starting to vapor-lock during the chase.<\/li>\n<li>Andricus wanted to retire his character, Arn, so he could play a different one down the road, so the GM arranged that with him. We were <i>not<\/i> expecting Finn to get sucked into the maelstrom during the chase though and since Banestorm III is (frustratingly to me sometimes) \u201cThe Finn Sardock Show,\u201d that complicates matters somewhat. Even more irritating to me is that this sets up a perfect storm for me to run an adventure arc with this characters (e.g. \u201cThe Search for Spock \u2026 er \u2026 Sardock\u201d) which my Muse has already sort of started toying with. In the event that happens (which \u2026 dammit \u2026 it probably will down the road), I do not think we\u2019re quite done with the djinn lands yet&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>After the fact, Gigermann realized he\u2019d screwed up during the chase as Thorondil has a Sense of Duty to Finn and would not have left him behind. We discussed afterward and sort of decided that Finn\u2019s shout to run was unconsciously utilizing magic to make it more of a compulsion. This works with the magical maelstrom happening right there and the mana level fluctuating wildly.<\/li>\n<li>This coming Saturday, 16 March, we\u2019re finishing the GURPS: Shadowrun game we played on 2 March and, presumably, I pick up with our Action! game the week after. Unless, of course, the Shadowrun game goes long again.<\/li>\n<li>Since we\u2019re livestreaming our games every Saturdays (6:00PM Eastern) at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/olympusrpg\">Olympus Twitch<\/a> channel and then later uploading the stream on the YouTube channel, we\u2019ve decided to dial back on the extensiveness of the recap to just the overall outline.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve also spun up a Twitter account to report our various statuses. Feel free to follow us @OlympusRPGGroup for news and updates.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--Precis - Nineteenth episode and finale of the second \u201cseason\u201d for our ongoing GURPS: Banestorm campaign using Fantasy Grounds and streamed on our Olympus Twitch channel. The final confrontation looms. Deep within the walls of the Lost City of Yaqut min Alraml, the warband square off against the yuan-ti sorceress in a desperate bid to save the Fa'iel shiekh. Not all of them will survive...--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatis Person\u00e6 GM: CommJunkee Arn Rainaldsson (Andricus) Brumrumli Barrelfoot (Ronnke) Finn Sardock (Rigil Kent) Lan-Fan Nakasato (Loki) Thorondil (Gigermann) Zistral (Herodian) Wherein the Warband Fails, a City is Destroyed, and Two of Their Number Are Lost&#8230; Standing before the gates of the temple, the warband advance with Finn in the lead. 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